Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ. The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable

discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the full work.

And I'm joined by one of our regulars, Damon Linker, author of the

Substack newsletter Eyes on the Right.

Bill Goston and Linda Chavez are off this week, but we are happy to welcome back,

the Bullworks Kathy Young and our

special guest this week is David Priests who is CEO of the Law Fair Institute

former CIA officer in the Clinton and George W Bush administrations and author of several books.

Welcome, one and all.

David, I'm particularly glad we were able to nab you for this week's podcast, because you are someone who certainly knows your way around security matters and classified documents.

You were in charge of briefing the attorney general on intelligence matters, I believe, and

you had a role in preparing the President's daily brief, the PDB, right?

Mona, I need you wherever I go because that's a pretty good summary.

Yes, I did brief a President's Daily Brief

to primarily the Attorney General and the FBI director for a time in the

George W Bush years and those were John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller and then

also took it into the White House a few times for the National Security

Advisor and her deputy. But yes, I definitely have a lot of thoughts about classified

documents and how reporting is showing that they were handled.

Okay, so let's start there.

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